No Irish, No Yanks, No Clogs - FIFA World Cup 2018

is Jose just pretending and hiding his?

Yeah, you can see the strap. Putin appears to genuinely not have one.

back to tony meola-- he kept referring to SA as "Saudi" which... seems like the equivalent of referring to Nigeria as "Niger" and very much one of those "no, you need to say the whole word" kinda things?

a lot of ppl do that and it's awful, compounding the obnoxiousness of prepending a country w/ the royal family's name

ffs this Griezmann thing

anyway he's staying, if anyone actually cares

my brother's in moscow sending me photos of colombians strutting about in traditional garb and recordings of drunk russians singing and my jealousy has maxed out

Can't help what the country's name is tbf xp

tell that to greece

in the highly competitive parallel group stage for risible, vacuous commentary at this world cup, "Stalin had a proper 'tache" is going to take some beating. 3 points to iTV

Looking forward to Tyldesley's show on geopolitics

lol at the griezmann thing, yr good m8 but yr not bron, and it was corny when he did it

so bad.. tbf he is a massive star in France, which is good at making stars out of people. like, he has an entire series of children's books about football, supposedly "by" him. no doubt he has a slightly inflated sense of himself.

Hey, remember Theo Walcott's kids books?

xxxxp I remember Alan Parry at the USA world cup, wondering aloud if a Saudi player named Amin was related to Idi Amin

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356459749l/9508036.jpg

genre = Fantasy

celebrating world cup day by getting beat 15-0 in the civil service league \{]/

There were no winners or losers, it was how you played the game.

thats my take but a lot of the lads are a lot more upset than is frankly seemly given our ability

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feel like they may share a ghostwriter

xpp

it's about the long game

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a footballer pictured yesterday, putting on his thinking cap in preparation to try and sign the x that represents his name correctly, onto a ghost written children's book.

According to The Guardian, there are 35,000 Peru fans there, not 15,000. Most of the reports from Muscovites I’ve seen suggest they’re the largest / most visible fan contingent by far.

Morocco vs Iran should be good. It’s a shame the (probably) best team in Africa got drawn against the best team in Asia, with neither of them likely to qualify. The Iranian guy who cuts my hair is pretty confident they can beat Portugal but is more concerned about Morocco.

always nice to start with a crude oil/crude homophobia derby!

― calzino, Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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yes - it is today we begin our campaign - and this week has been a challenge for all but i urge everyone to remain calm and support spain in an orderly fashion. in this way there will be no further unpleasantness at national or local level, and heavy-handedness will not be deemed necessary as everyone smiles and enjoys a successful world cup. that is my view, signed fernando hierro.

also speaking as hierro i recall as a young player growing up in malaga where i was told to prevent goals, that is what we hope to do tonight against our great rivals of portugal, yes they have cristiano ronaldo, however we will have 10 men plus the goalkeeper - also a man. the identity of these men will be discovered on the pitch. but also in football and life we must always create many goals.

the methods of the future are not unknown to us - yes in fact this is a team which we have chosen from several electronic databases of these players which are kept on very special computers. we hope to give our friends in portugal many questions which are unanswered. our tactics will be decided in a meeting we attend with paper folders but one way or not we will play for the duration of the match and always the main tactic will be in our hearts alone.

to the fans i would like to say simply this - i threaten you to enjoy this world cup - what is certain is that spain.

now let us as a nation move in a careful manner towards the exit of the groups.

regards,

fernando hierro

i believe in hierro and in the republic!

as a nation

¡Vamos Castilla!

we all remember another great spaniard who triumphed in russia and returned in glory to crush the snakes in our midst!

Julio Iglesias?

james fitzjames stuart obv ffs

Salah fit but not starting.

Can Suarez make it through this tournament without getting banned?

yesterday i tried to find odds on him biting somebody this tournament but there was just a bunch of stories about winning bets from 2014

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2018/06/13/why-rathmullan-will-roar-on-peru-at-the-world-cup/

looking forward to the Football Special sponsorship deal

De Arrascaeta is starting today. He looks pretty exciting from the little I’ve seen of him.

no odds on Suarez biting? I thought Lameo Losestone said you can 'ave millions of different jumbo-jets on facking anything you want guv!

i'm sure you can get a bet i just couldn't be bothered navigating the bookie sites

I tried it and the Suarez Specials didn't feature biting, strangling or spitting type acts of villainy odds!

it's political correctness gone mad

This uruguay anthem is some barber of seville shit, I like it

Really not seeing the trezeguet resemblance

Typical Lawro bullshit, starts his prediction for this game with "it is going to be hard for Egypt to get out of this group" whereas yesterday was all "two worst teams at the tournament" and even "look, they only beat KSA."

Uruguay’s national anthem is a legit Donizetti rip-off. I think it’s Lucrezia Borgia.

Xp Fifa are unlikely to assign egypt to a different group now that the tournament has begun so lawro otm

Really not seeing the trezeguet resemblance

Always hated that greetin'-faced poacher and now there's another one of them.

“The ref has disallowed it!”

Lmao

lol. gr8 summarising from the bbc!

Stick to the robots, Jonathan.

not all that when it comes to the robots either

Lest we forget

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIj_GlvLD4

Not the robots I was thinking of.